…how often we seem to forget the clear and repeated warnings
of our beloved Master, who in particular during the concluding years of his
mission on earth, laid stress on the severe mental tests that would inevitably
sweep over his loved ones of the West ... tests that would purge, purify and
prepare them for their noble mission in life.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message
dated December 2, 1923; ‘Messages to Australia and New Zealand’)
